'Selfishness' definitions:
Definition of 'selfishness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others [ant: unselfishness]
Definition of 'Selfishness'
From: GCIDE
- Selfishness \Self"ish*ness\, n. The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. [1913 Webster]
- Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. --Sir J. Mackintosh. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Self-love. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'selfishness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- autotheism,
- ego,
- egocentricity,
- egocentrism,
- egoism,
- egoisticalness,
- egotism,
- egotisticalness,
- individualism,
- self,
- self-absorption,
- self-centeredness,
- self-centerment,
- self-interest,
- self-regard,
- self-seeking,
- self-worship,
- selfhood,
- selfism,
- selfness